I'm hoping that someone with more expertise would check this out by reading the bill.
On/., getting folks to read the focking summary is sometimes a chore.
Despite that, we've previously been blessed with posters capable of deciphering the legalese and others who'd read the bill, but they were never the same person.
If the top earners are taxed at 39.6%, and that only kicks in after $418,000, how odes the state lose revenue?
At 53K per year, you're in the 25% tax bracket. Let's see what happens if a majority portion of the workers earn $35K instead of $53K to allow for some few dozen padded executive salaries.
2900 @ 35,000 is 101 million, plus 100 million for 100 million dollar packages. 101 million @.25 ($25 million) and 100 million @.396 ($39.6 Million) for a total tax income burden of $64.6 million; versus 53,000 * 3000 for 159 million @.25 for a total income tax burden of $39,750,000.
Symantec and the like have outright admitted cooperation with US spooks.
In other news, protectionism is all the rage in any nation's trade policy. It's much more sensible to appease your home government than a foreign one. General Motors and Ford are implying Toyota exhibits greater fealty to the Japanese government than to the wishes of their American counterpart.
Crazy how much power we still afford imaginary lines on the earth.
Democratic opponents of the deal have pointed out that paying $3 billion to get 3,000 jobs means the state subsidy amounts to around $1 million per job.
That is just north of $66K for each of the projected 3000 jobs for the nrext 15 years. The jobs are reported to average just over $53K in salary.
The full value ($3 billion) only kicks in if Foxconn eventually employs 13,000 workers, but:
Even if the plant never expands beyond 3,000 jobs, though, Foxconn will get $1.35 billion for building the plant. Assuming even the beginning stages of the deal come together, Wisconsin will be paying $500,000 worth of incentives per job.
FUD. Gasoline (petrol) burns at 945 Celsius, and has some reported explosive value, while:
The Risk of Exploding Lithium Ion Batteries - Techlicious
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Aug 7, 2013 - As the video below from computer support company PC Pitstop shows, lithium ion battery fires not only burn extremely hot (up to 1000 degrees fahrenheit), but can explode, sending chunks of burning metal across the room.
'97?
All of those items are WAY older than that. The Clackers were pulled off the market in the '70's as they had a tendency to shatter. Yo-yo's date to ancient China. Rubber wristbands....those might be newer,but Rubik's Cube is from the mid '70's, Hula Hoops, late '50's, and marbles date to at least the Roman Empire.
By the time Tamagotchi's appeared, I was in my 30's, and I had played with all of the listed stuff except the rubber wrist bands by the time I graduated in '77.
My favorite Clackers were the ones coated in a thin layer of gunpowder. They sparked and popped when you used them, and burning them or crushing them with a sledgehammer was a 'blast!'
Needless to say, they were not on the market for very long at all.
Well shoot, you must remember cap guns. If you were experiment-oriented, how you could also get them to pop with a hammer... and fold them over to pop two, three, four at a time. The pre-coddling era: remember lawn jarts?
Edison didn't win the electricity game by producing a better product... he simply understood the way things worked better than Tesla.
No, Edison was an asshole who literally electrocuted neighborhood dogs and sued his competition of rudimentary patents because the only thing he cared about was money. Telsa cared about science and the advancement of society rather than profit and allowed companies infringing on his patents to continue, despite holding arguably the most valuable patents in history.
Telsa wasn't perfect but Edison was a total asshole.
This probably goes a long way towards explaining why Musk's new automotive release isn't the Edison Model S.
Pretty sure the Falcon 9 Heavy was supposed to have launched for real by now. Is this animation supposed to make up for the lack of the real thing?
Yes, the cartoon was supposed to be enough of a distraction, but you were too clever to fall for that... smugly sitting there changing the World in a fashion that Elon Musk can only dream about.
To be fair, I believe the launch delays began after the 06/15 CRS-7 crash. The last thing a privately held rocket company could afford is a reputation for repeated failure, so it seems prudent that they became a bit more cautious.
In Miami... probably by the US and I don't see anything about being extradited.
No, he came of his own volition.
So it is we in the Americas that are the savages?
I can't prove this a negative, but now I'm in the unenviable position of profiling two different nationalities in one thread.
I can agree with holding executives accountable. Why only one, though? There should be a few more plus some board members and a whole chain of command.
What are you implying? We're too advanced to accept sacrifices?
Schmidt, a German citizen who was 48 when he was arrested in Miami in January on vacation...
Arrested him on vacation? You Germans are savages. Heh.
I have to say, I kind of like the fact that members of industry are held accountable for the Company's actions. We have no like study to reference over here in the Americas.
Charter came up with new prices and packages, and many customers saw their bills rise when their previous discounts expired and they were switched to non-promotional pricing.
Clearly, the nature of cable conglomerates is chaotic evil, but it seems likely on the order of tomorrow's sunrise the same customers would've been subjected to rate increases at their original cable providers when their promotional discounts expired.
We're talking about an industry where the only sure method of getting discount rates involves switching providers. No one gets great rates staying with their current provider.
Every swinging internet user has a vote on how things work. How you browse the internet, which sites attract the volume of your time, where you shop... you're either the customer or the product, so depending on how you vote with your time & wallet, some of this shit is your fault.
Don't like Facebook or twitter? Me neither, but the voters have spoken and we're in the minority.
Kapersky can't be involved. That would be way too obvious. This has got to be a distraction. I fear it will be a costly one too...
Unless there's some equivalent culpability involving a US-based anti-virus concern that's in jeopardy of exposure. I mean, then it could be a preemptive strike.
I don't have my tin hat on, but it's within reach, on the desk.
They're mouth pieces for billionaires. Which is nothing new really, these things were always owned or controlled by some old family or other of the city or town.
They used to be a necessary evil: someone needed to put the infrastructure in place to help disseminate information. These days, however, the Internet means that we can drop the "necessary" part: we don't need publishers anymore to publish.
Collusion between the media, politicians, and certain corporations resulted in a lot of power and wealth for a select group of people. These people are now screaming bloody murder and are trying to impose all sorts of controls on speech and content in order to be able to hold on to their old privileges and power.
Fortunately, it's not going to work.
No. It's akin to the brick and mortar retailers bitching about the unfairness of the mail order retailers, warehousing goods instead of absorbing the cost of an actual storefront.
There's a new boulevard to the voters' hearts and minds... get on-board, or get left. Behind.
Another US billionaire using their money to manipulate public opinion and push their political views. This one didn't even earn their billions, they married into them.
To be fair, that's earning the money, especially when compared to simply inheriting it.
consumer-grade encryption is that upon which one cannot rely
No, it's having violent tantrums as lefty social currency and expecting that since it's put up with in places like Berkeley that it'll all be just fine, since one got that rockin' balaclava shipped Prime from Amazon... upon which one cannot rely.
I was with you right up until the Prime Baclava; and though she pales in comparison to the Rib of the same forename, i (just a little i) have been astonished by the reliability of the Bezos iteration of Sears & Roebuck.
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I'm hoping that someone with more expertise would check this out by reading the bill.
On /., getting folks to read the focking summary is sometimes a chore.
Despite that, we've previously been blessed with posters capable of deciphering the legalese and others who'd read the bill, but they were never the same person.
At 53K per year, you're in the 25% tax bracket. Let's see what happens if a majority portion of the workers earn $35K instead of $53K to allow for some few dozen padded executive salaries.
2900 @ 35,000 is 101 million, plus 100 million for 100 million dollar packages. 101 million @ .25 ($25 million) and 100 million @ .396 ($39.6 Million) for a total tax income burden of $64.6 million; versus 53,000 * 3000 for 159 million @ .25 for a total income tax burden of $39,750,000.
Symantec and the like have outright admitted cooperation with US spooks.
In other news, protectionism is all the rage in any nation's trade policy. It's much more sensible to appease your home government than a foreign one. General Motors and Ford are implying Toyota exhibits greater fealty to the Japanese government than to the wishes of their American counterpart.
Crazy how much power we still afford imaginary lines on the earth.
Democratic opponents of the deal have pointed out that paying $3 billion to get 3,000 jobs means the state subsidy amounts to around $1 million per job.
That is just north of $66K for each of the projected 3000 jobs for the nrext 15 years. The jobs are reported to average just over $53K in salary. The full value ($3 billion) only kicks in if Foxconn eventually employs 13,000 workers, but:
Even if the plant never expands beyond 3,000 jobs, though, Foxconn will get $1.35 billion for building the plant. Assuming even the beginning stages of the deal come together, Wisconsin will be paying $500,000 worth of incentives per job.
It seems important to us as a species to have these settled world views, and I wonder why that's important.
Maybe banding together intellectually is an important feature in our tendency towards tribalism.
Excuse me - I've eaten C-Rations, not K-Rations.
If you see Kay, tell her that meals with any sort of nutritional value develop an acute deliciousness after about 48 hrs without eating.
Now there's nothing more to squabble about...
except the evil US online retailer that's cheatin' us, mate!
The Risk of Exploding Lithium Ion Batteries - Techlicious https://www.techlicious.com/bl... Aug 7, 2013 - As the video below from computer support company PC Pitstop shows, lithium ion battery fires not only burn extremely hot (up to 1000 degrees fahrenheit), but can explode, sending chunks of burning metal across the room.
'97? All of those items are WAY older than that. The Clackers were pulled off the market in the '70's as they had a tendency to shatter. Yo-yo's date to ancient China. Rubber wristbands....those might be newer,but Rubik's Cube is from the mid '70's, Hula Hoops, late '50's, and marbles date to at least the Roman Empire. By the time Tamagotchi's appeared, I was in my 30's, and I had played with all of the listed stuff except the rubber wrist bands by the time I graduated in '77. My favorite Clackers were the ones coated in a thin layer of gunpowder. They sparked and popped when you used them, and burning them or crushing them with a sledgehammer was a 'blast!' Needless to say, they were not on the market for very long at all.
Well shoot, you must remember cap guns. If you were experiment-oriented, how you could also get them to pop with a hammer... and fold them over to pop two, three, four at a time. The pre-coddling era: remember lawn jarts?
Edison didn't win the electricity game by producing a better product... he simply understood the way things worked better than Tesla.
No, Edison was an asshole who literally electrocuted neighborhood dogs and sued his competition of rudimentary patents because the only thing he cared about was money. Telsa cared about science and the advancement of society rather than profit and allowed companies infringing on his patents to continue, despite holding arguably the most valuable patents in history.
Telsa wasn't perfect but Edison was a total asshole.
This probably goes a long way towards explaining why Musk's new automotive release isn't the Edison Model S.
Delorean was a rookie at the fundraising game, though, which is why he turned to an illegal income stream.
Elon's getting free press, government contracts, and all the lined-up, round the block, VC capitol he wants.
Edison didn't win the electricity game by producing a better product... he simply understood the way things worked better than Tesla.
Pretty sure the Falcon 9 Heavy was supposed to have launched for real by now. Is this animation supposed to make up for the lack of the real thing?
Yes, the cartoon was supposed to be enough of a distraction, but you were too clever to fall for that... smugly sitting there changing the World in a fashion that Elon Musk can only dream about.
To be fair, I believe the launch delays began after the 06/15 CRS-7 crash. The last thing a privately held rocket company could afford is a reputation for repeated failure, so it seems prudent that they became a bit more cautious.
In Miami... probably by the US and I don't see anything about being extradited.
No, he came of his own volition.
So it is we in the Americas that are the savages?
I can't prove this a negative, but now I'm in the unenviable position of profiling two different nationalities in one thread.
I can agree with holding executives accountable. Why only one, though? There should be a few more plus some board members and a whole chain of command.
What are you implying? We're too advanced to accept sacrifices?
Schmidt, a German citizen who was 48 when he was arrested in Miami in January on vacation...
Arrested him on vacation? You Germans are savages. Heh.
I have to say, I kind of like the fact that members of industry are held accountable for the Company's actions. We have no like study to reference over here in the Americas.
0.184615385, but never tell me the odds.
Twelve people out of 65 is 20 percent.
18.5%, if you round up, mathlete.
Charter came up with new prices and packages, and many customers saw their bills rise when their previous discounts expired and they were switched to non-promotional pricing.
Clearly, the nature of cable conglomerates is chaotic evil, but it seems likely on the order of tomorrow's sunrise the same customers would've been subjected to rate increases at their original cable providers when their promotional discounts expired.
We're talking about an industry where the only sure method of getting discount rates involves switching providers. No one gets great rates staying with their current provider.
Since when are IT employees hired for their looks?
Since, well, this prospect looks like he'll work more hours for less pay... beauty.
I imagine the folks at the Federal Trade Commission are pretty shook up about this.
Every swinging internet user has a vote on how things work. How you browse the internet, which sites attract the volume of your time, where you shop... you're either the customer or the product, so depending on how you vote with your time & wallet, some of this shit is your fault.
Don't like Facebook or twitter? Me neither, but the voters have spoken and we're in the minority.
Laurene Powell's jobs organization. Indeed, a monster proofread fail.
Kapersky can't be involved. That would be way too obvious. This has got to be a distraction. I fear it will be a costly one too...
Unless there's some equivalent culpability involving a US-based anti-virus concern that's in jeopardy of exposure. I mean, then it could be a preemptive strike.
I don't have my tin hat on, but it's within reach, on the desk.
They used to be a necessary evil: someone needed to put the infrastructure in place to help disseminate information. These days, however, the Internet means that we can drop the "necessary" part: we don't need publishers anymore to publish.
Collusion between the media, politicians, and certain corporations resulted in a lot of power and wealth for a select group of people. These people are now screaming bloody murder and are trying to impose all sorts of controls on speech and content in order to be able to hold on to their old privileges and power.
Fortunately, it's not going to work.
No. It's akin to the brick and mortar retailers bitching about the unfairness of the mail order retailers, warehousing goods instead of absorbing the cost of an actual storefront.
There's a new boulevard to the voters' hearts and minds... get on-board, or get left. Behind.
Another US billionaire using their money to manipulate public opinion and push their political views. This one didn't even earn their billions, they married into them.
To be fair, that's earning the money, especially when compared to simply inheriting it.
consumer-grade encryption is that upon which one cannot rely
No, it's having violent tantrums as lefty social currency and expecting that since it's put up with in places like Berkeley that it'll all be just fine, since one got that rockin' balaclava shipped Prime from Amazon ... upon which one cannot rely.
I was with you right up until the Prime Baclava; and though she pales in comparison to the Rib of the same forename, i (just a little i) have been astonished by the reliability of the Bezos iteration of Sears & Roebuck.